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taritari
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Hi, have been looking around these forums but thought I'd sign up and ask for help.
I'm in my early twenties and have never really looked after my teeth and recently went to the dentist and was told I needed 5 teeth extracted and 4 fillings. The teeth needing extracting are the back three on the right side and the back 2 on the left. I knew my teeth were terrible but they never hurt a great deal and the worse they got the more anxiety I felt which meant I never visited the dentist.
The whole visit left me in shock (even though I suspected I'd need this treatment) and just thinking about the future of my teeth leaves me feeling very ill. I don't think this was helped by the dentist who was overall condescending and curt, not fully explaining my options. (Though I fully expected and accept his behaviour since this is all my own fault.)
The plan is to extract all those teeth in two visits (one side each time) but there was no mention of what happens next. This is what worried me slightly as I've agreed to take these teeth out but with no idea what will happen afterwards. Researching my options makes me feel incredibly nauseous, but it seems the best thing would be a partial denture. However, I'm not entirely sure I want all these teeth out. At the moment I only have very irregular pain problems with one (the one on the very back on the right) and would like that fixed, but the idea of taking them all out in such a small period of time fills me with fear. But since I've already agreed to this course of treatment I'm not sure what else I could do. I'm wondering if it'd be possible to just take that one out for now and then treat the others at a later date (I'm currently at university and so travelling back home to visit the dentist is not always an option).
Will keeping in heavily decayed teeth cause a huge amount of problems? Or is it best to take them all out? The dentist did not mention what happens after these teeth are extracted at all and that makes me incredibly anxious. It's my own fault for not asking, but honestly my mind was incredibly fuzzy and I could barely think. I just wish I'd gotten more of a chance to ask questions, but it seemed the dentist just wanted to see the back of me. (This sounds like I'm mad at them but really I'm just mad at myself.)
I've always been very self conscious of my teeth and the idea of losing all these at once is very scary. I've told my boyfriend I need treatment but not how bad it is (mostly because I don't want to scare him off).
Sorry for this long and rambling post, I'm just looking for a bit of guidance as to what to do since I'm at a complete loss.
I'm in my early twenties and have never really looked after my teeth and recently went to the dentist and was told I needed 5 teeth extracted and 4 fillings. The teeth needing extracting are the back three on the right side and the back 2 on the left. I knew my teeth were terrible but they never hurt a great deal and the worse they got the more anxiety I felt which meant I never visited the dentist.
The whole visit left me in shock (even though I suspected I'd need this treatment) and just thinking about the future of my teeth leaves me feeling very ill. I don't think this was helped by the dentist who was overall condescending and curt, not fully explaining my options. (Though I fully expected and accept his behaviour since this is all my own fault.)
The plan is to extract all those teeth in two visits (one side each time) but there was no mention of what happens next. This is what worried me slightly as I've agreed to take these teeth out but with no idea what will happen afterwards. Researching my options makes me feel incredibly nauseous, but it seems the best thing would be a partial denture. However, I'm not entirely sure I want all these teeth out. At the moment I only have very irregular pain problems with one (the one on the very back on the right) and would like that fixed, but the idea of taking them all out in such a small period of time fills me with fear. But since I've already agreed to this course of treatment I'm not sure what else I could do. I'm wondering if it'd be possible to just take that one out for now and then treat the others at a later date (I'm currently at university and so travelling back home to visit the dentist is not always an option).
Will keeping in heavily decayed teeth cause a huge amount of problems? Or is it best to take them all out? The dentist did not mention what happens after these teeth are extracted at all and that makes me incredibly anxious. It's my own fault for not asking, but honestly my mind was incredibly fuzzy and I could barely think. I just wish I'd gotten more of a chance to ask questions, but it seemed the dentist just wanted to see the back of me. (This sounds like I'm mad at them but really I'm just mad at myself.)
I've always been very self conscious of my teeth and the idea of losing all these at once is very scary. I've told my boyfriend I need treatment but not how bad it is (mostly because I don't want to scare him off).
Sorry for this long and rambling post, I'm just looking for a bit of guidance as to what to do since I'm at a complete loss.